Archaeologists conducting restoration works on the Jiankou section of the Great Wall of China have discovered an ornate dragon sculpture. The Great Wall of China refers...
A rare stone mask from the Neolithic period has been unveiled for the first time by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The mask was recovered by...
Underwater archaeologists from Bournemouth University have recovered two medieval grave slabs from a shipwreck off the coast of Dorset, England. The gave slabs were found at...
A study, published in the journal Proteomics, presents new evidence to suggest that voodoo blood rituals were performed at the palace of King Ghezo. Ghezo was...
A team of archaeologists are searching for the home of Sir Arthur Haselrig, a leader of the Parliamentary opposition to Charles I, and whose attempted arrest...
Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida (IAM) and the CSIC have uncovered a slate plaque depicting warrior scenes at the Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological...
Excavations by the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) have unearthed a necropolis for stillborn and young children in the historic centre of Auxerre, France....
The Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) has confirmed the discovery of the USS Harder (SS 257), an historic US submarine from WWII. The USS Harder...
Archaeologists from the Superintendent of Archaeology Fine Arts and Landscape have made several major discoveries during excavations of Roman Vibo Valentia at the Urban Archaeological Park....
Archaeologists have uncovered two crypts in the collegiate church in Łowicz containing the Primates of Poland. In the Latin Church, a primate is an archbishop who...
Giant rock engravings along the Upper and Middle Orinoco River in South America could be territorial markers according to a new study. Archaeologists have mapped 14...
Archaeologists have discovered several sets of rare medieval gaming pieces during excavations of a previously unknown castle complex at Burgstein in Southern Germany. Among the discoveries...
A farmer in Studal, Norway, has stumbled across a rare Viking sword while preparing his field for sowing new grass. The sword was found by Øyvind...
Underwater archaeologists from the Vrak – Museum of Wrecks have raised a wooden barrel containing osmond from a 16th century shipwreck off the Baltic coast of...
Archaeologists from the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti Paesaggio Etruria Meridionale have discovered a submerged Roman structure near Campo di Mare on Italy’s western coast. Previous studies...
A recent study published in GeoJournal proposes that Seahenge was built to conduct rituals aimed at prolonging the summer during the extreme climatic changes of the...
Archaeologists have raised a royal tomb at the Terracotta Warrior mausoleum complex of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Qin Shi Huang’s reign brought about the unification of...
In 2021, Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society, discovered a partially obscured dugout canoe in the depths of Lake Mendota in Madison,...
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago. Proponents of this theory...
Archaeologists from the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt (LDA) have discovered a large 17th century coin hoard during construction works at a farmstead...
A winemaker has stumbled across 40,000 year-old mammoth bones while renovating his wine cellar in Gobelsburg, Austria. A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid...
Archaeologists have uncovered ancient graffiti depicting gladiators during excavations of the house of the Casa del Cenacolo Colonnato enclosure in Pompeii. Pompeii was a Roman city,...
A coin hoard of over 2,000 medieval coins has been found near Kutnohorsk in the Czech Republic. The hoard was first discovered by a woman walking...
Archaeologists have rediscovered the remains of the reliquary of St Swithun in a crypt beneath Stavanger Cathedral. St Swithun was an Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester (England),...